Misfortune Quotes
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Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.
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A woman, especially if she has the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.
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Nobody is impervious to misfortune.
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There are some vile and contemptible men who, allowing themselves to be conquered by misfortune, seek a refuge in death.
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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
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Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
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When adversity overtakes you, it pays to be thankful it was not worse instead of worrying over your misfortune.
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Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.
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Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen.
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Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
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Misfortune is never invited. And it comes and sits at the table without permission and it eats, leaving nothing but bones.
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To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.
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It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.
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Germany had the misfortune of becoming poisoned, first because of plenty, and then because of want.
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Misfortune is the test of a person's merit.
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Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.
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True heroism consists in rising superior to misfortune.
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My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo
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It is my misfortune - and probably my delight - to use things as my passions tell me. What a miserable fate for a painter who adores blondes to have to stop himself putting them into a picture because they don't go with the basket of fruit! . . . I put all the things I like into my pictures. The things - so much the worse for them. They just have to put up with it.
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When Opportunity came, the person didn't realize it because it came in the form of misfortune.
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As a rule, I don't like to laugh at the misfortune of others. The exception to that rule is if it's really, really funny.
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There is no greater misfortune in the world than the loss of reason.
